TarPit provides the glue for an unholy union of build tools. Namely:
* Rake[http://github.com/jimweirich/rake] with
Hoe[http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/hoe/] for gem publishing
* Maven[http://maven.apache.org/] for Java builds with dependencies.
In particular, it runs "mvn package" when needed, links jars to the
gem lib directory, and provides (semi-)automatic Manifest.txt
generation with these jar files without offending Hoe.
* The Maven pom.xml (and assembly.xml if needed) must be managed
independently.
* A Manifest.static file holds the static elements of the manifest.